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A lil life update! I quit my job at Google and moved to Rwanda for a few months!
I’m going to be working at @AmpersandMotor1 building motorbikes and charging infra for motorcycle taxi drivers
Let’s hold our grief then turn to curiosity 💓
From @ezraklein: “It does mean taking seriously the world people are experiencing so you know how to respond to that world”
I hope everyone heard Ezra Klein make such an important point today about the self-sabotaging dynamics of exclusivity and ostracism that have dominated left-leaning culture in recent years when he brought up Bernie Sanders's appearance on Joe Rogan:
"But it wasn't always like that on Rogan's podcast. It wasn't that many years ago that Rogan had Bernie Sanders on for a friendly interview and then Rogan kinda sorta endorsed him. And you know what happened after that? Many liberals were furious at Bernie Sanders for going on Rogan in the first place. I was still on Twitter back then and I wrote about how of course Bernie Sanders was right to be there. That the fact that Sanders could attract people like Rogan was one of the very best arguments for his campaign. One of the reasons he might be able to beat someone like Donald Trump. This was 2020. If you wanted to beat Trump, of course you'd try to win over Rogan and his voters. But online liberals got so pissed at me for that it was briefly a trending topic on Twitter. Rogan was a transphobe, an Islamophobe, a sexist, the kind of person you wanted to marginalize, not the kind of person you wanted to talk to, but if these last years have proven anything, it's that you don't get to choose who is marginalized."
I’m back in SF after working in Rwanda for a few months! A few reflections….
I was surprised by how fascinating it was to work at a startup in an emerging market. Software startups in NA/Europe aim to find an niche problem that isn’t solved + someone will pay for.
The work felt more creative because you need to build out the entire value chain from scratch. There’s no playbook and no charging, maintenance, or policy infrastructure.
Very excited to be a part of an electrification solution that also tangibly improves the income of these drivers :)
Amy Wang retweeted
Fascinating seeing lessons from the Chinese public charging infra rollout (where the majority are operated by the monopoly utilities). High deployment, highest number of EVs of any country, easy to use, and yet it’s incredibly hard to pencil.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
I didn't realize that the IPCC report is super conservative... it's the first time the report stated with certainty that humans caused climate change 🤯
recommend giving this awesome article by @emorwee a read!
heated.world/p/i-dont-like-i…
im still tracking expenses for a small business i ran for 6 months last year...
is this supposed to be so hard or am i doing sthg wrong 😭
😭😭👏👏
Now the real work begins.
To beat this pandemic.
To rebuild our economy.
To root out systemic racism in our justice system and society.
To combat the climate crisis.
To heal the soul of our nation.
The road ahead won't be easy. But America is ready. And so are @JoeBiden and I.
Amy Wang retweeted
Kudos to @kwelkernbc for finally asking the right climate question during a presidential debate: not "Do you believe in it" but rather "How are you going to fix it?"